I got a $100 bill from my daughter for my birthday, and I am trying to figure out how to best spend it? It is not that I am that poor, but yes, when it comes to audio I am because nobody in the house cares about it. They would all rather I got all my "junk" out of the living room!
I thought about getting the Schiit Mani phono stage. But, would it be any better than the phono stage of my Sansui 2000X? I have thought a lot about getting that Volt+D form Allo.com. I figure it should be even better (perhaps by a lot) than my modified Sonic Impact. But would I notice the difference when I am filtering everything out except what the 15 alphas can use? My goal is to get as full and flat bass response as possible. I am not looking for more, but subscribing to what speaker designer Geddes has written about. That the more sub-woofers in the room, the more flat and better the bass gets. PG, from an audio quality point of view, would you advise me to eventually go for the diy bucket subs, or something like the other sub-woofer that you use? And, which of the inexpensive sub-woofer amps would work best, Dayton, Yung etc.? I could get one of those now. I am going to get more monoprice cables. I didn't buy enough xlr to rca ones because I had planned to use the Cary on bass, which has xlr inputs. I have been wondering what would happen if I remove to tweeter caps, and use the x10 setting on the Berhinger to try tri-amping and setting the crossover between the 12lta and the asd1001 to about 2.5KHtz. That might eliminate that last big peak in the response of the 12lta in theory. Who knows if it will sound better or worse. I am actually happy the way it is. I guess it is that princess and the pea audiophilia thing. I thought about getting another Berhinger CX2310, using the mono setting to use one Berhinger per 3 way speaker and still have two sub-woofer outputs for when I get there.
While any of the options I have mentioned would be fun, I figured I my better spend my money by consulting the experiences of all you guys first.
P.S. I got my printed versions of my three drivers out today (Eminence asd1001, 12lta & 15alpha) and was looking at the FR of each one. I saw something that I didn't know what to make of. According to the Frequency Response graphs, the 15a seems to drop off as soon and a little faster than the 12lta. Feel free to enlighten me if you can help me understand why the graphs look the why they do. I am not any expert of interpreting these.
Sincerely,
Benjamin